The America I know and love resides in the values of her people, until recently, the envy of the known world.
In his State of the Union Address, January 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt defined those values in terms of freedom. He said:
"In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship god in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation."
Today, in our pandemic response, we can only go wrong if we fail to be humane: If we fail to promote freedom from want and fear, here in America, and everywhere in the world.
[ii] Egan, Lauren; Tsirkin, Julie; Shabad, Rebecca. "White House, Senate reach deal on massive $2 trillion coronavirus spending bill". NBC News. March 25, 2020.
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